AwardsWatch - cannes film festival

Cannes: Festival addresses postponement questions in new FAQ

Erik Anderson March 26, 2020

The organizers of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival have released a statement and full FAQ addressing the myriad of concerns of filmgoers and passholders about... Read More

Cannes 2020 Officially Postponed

Erik Anderson March 19, 2020

The 73rd edition of the Cannes Film Festival has officially been postponed in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, a press release from festival officials... Read More

Cannes 2020: Cannes Lion pushes from June to October

Erik Anderson March 18, 2020

The Cannes Lions festival has been postponed from June 22-26 to October 26-30 it was announced by festival organizers on Wednesday. The decision was arrived at after... Read More

Cannes 2020: Cinefondation’s L’Atelier lineup

Erik Anderson March 9, 2020

The Cinefondation’s L’Atelier hosts its sixteenth edition this year and will invite to the Festival de Cannes 16 directors whose projects have been considered particularly... Read More

Cannes 2020: ‘3 Days in Cannes’ youth pass returns

Erik Anderson February 25, 2020

After the hugely successful second edition of the “3 Days in Cannes” initiative last year of which the period was doubled, the Festival de Cannes... Read More

Trailer for ‘Bull,’ starring Rob Morgan of ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’

Erik Anderson January 21, 2020

Annie Silverstein’s acclaimed Cannes drama will be in select theaters and on digital/VOD on March 20, 2020 Bull centers around 14-year-old Kris (Amber Havard), who, after... Read More

Interview: 'And Then We Danced' director Levan Akin, stars Levan Gelbakhiani and Bachi Valishvili

Erik Anderson December 6, 2019

And Then We Danced tells the story of a young Georgian dancer whose world is turned upside down when another male dancer enters the traditional... Read More

Interview: Cannes winner Ladj Ly, director of ‘Les Misérables’

Jack King May 30, 2019

“We have the impression that the politicians don’t care. […] If you really want to make a revolution, you have to be in the streets... Read More

2019 Cannes Film Festival Awards: Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Parasite’ wins Palme d’Or

Erik Anderson May 25, 2019

Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite (South Korea), a piercing social class commentary, has won the 2019 Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. Jury president Alejandro González Iñárritu called... Read More

Cannes Review: Elia Suleiman’s ‘It Must Be Heaven,’ is a political and sometimes brilliant meta commentary on Palestine identity

Mina Takla May 25, 2019

Elia Suleiman’s latest is a dryly comedic essay film on the Palestinian identity In the same vein as his previous films, but perhaps less structured... Read More

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